Motherly instincts: The mother and other adults protect the baby elephant
at the banks of the Kinabatangan River.
at the banks of the Kinabatangan River.
SANDAKAN: A conservationist is now studying the social structure of Sabah's Borneo elephants after past research had focused on genetics.
"We do not yet understand their actual family structures and group dynamics," said Nurzhafarina Othman, a biologist at Danau Girang Field Centre.
Nurzhafarina, whose reasearch would be based on actual observations, would be working with the Elephant Conservation Unit (co-founded by French non-governmental organisation Hutan and the Sabah Wildlife Depart-ment).
DNA information would also be collected via the faeces of the elephants.
(Article is taken from TheStar Online)
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